As things stand, the tide remains with him. The Labour
leadership is like a rabbit in the headlights. Large numbers of people,
young people in particular, are joining Corbyn's campaign and people are
flocking to his rallies and campaign events. Many are signing up to
Labour as registered supporters or as affiliated supporters through
their trade unions. (According to Labour List in late June the figures were
registered supporters: 9115, affiliated supporters: 3788 while the
number of full members has also grown significantly since the general
election.)

The support from inside major trade unions for Corbyn’s candidacy has been extraordinary.

The Scottish Socialist Party believes the Scottish Left Project
electoral alliance has great potential and we want to help harvest that
potential. We bring our experience and expertise as a party, one that
has fought all four previous Holyrood elections, with us. And we look
forward to meeting our partners in the Left Project in the next few days
to see what progress can now be made towards advancing our shared
political goals.

May 21,
2015 – Links International Journal of
Socialist Renewal -- A commentator for the mainstream Barcelona daily La Vanguardia reported in its May 9 edition on a conversation in a lift that he had
overheard between two “executives of a certain age”.

They were talking about an opinion poll giving the radical, movement-based
ticket “Barcelona Together” and its mayoral candidate, housing rights activist
Ada Colau, the lead in the March 24 contest for the Barcelona City Council. On
that day elections will also be held in all municipalities in the Spanish
state, as well as in 13 of the country’s 17 autonomous communities (states).

Executive A: “Have you seen that [incumbent Barcelona mayor Xavier] Trias is
losing?”

May 8, 2015 -- Broadsheet.ie, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Hope has been in short supply in Ireland in recent years but, thankfully, it has emerged in recent months. But this hope
has not come in the so-called "recovery", which is deeply uneven across
the country and from which the majority of people remain excluded.

No, the real hope emerged, first in the mass protests against water charges, and now in
the possibility of a new political movement built from the grassroots of
these unprecedented protests.

Since Ireland's independence in 1921 the overwhelming majority of Irish
governments have been composed of the tweedle-dee, tweedle-dum parties
of Fine Gael/Fianna Fail/Labour Party. What have they achieved for
ordinary people? Corruption, inequality and austerity are now the
hallmarks of the Irish Republic, a centenary after its founders aimed
for a Republic of equality.

May 5, 2015 -- Solidarity (USA), posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Some 200 political activists from a variety of independent political organisations, as well as individual activists, carried out rich discussion and amicable debate about how to collaborate in the work of building a large political alternative to the left of the Democratic Party.

Participating in the Future of the Left/Independent Politics Conference in an unprecedented spirit of cooperation, national, state, and local candidates and activists, as well as elected officials from the Green Party, the Peace and Freedom Party, the Richmond Progressive Alliance, Socialist Alternative, International Socialist Organization (ISO) and the Vermont Progressive Party discussed the challenges of campaigning and the difficulties of actually holding office while trying to both build movements and push progressive policies. Also at the conference were members of Progressive Democrats of America and the Justice Party.

May 1, 2015 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Ireland's left, under the impact of the mass movement against water charges that has thrown traditional politics into turmoil, is discussing how it can organise to seriously challenge for power.

On May 1, in Dublin, five trade unions involved in the
Right2Water (R2W) campaign are hosting a conference to discuss a “Platform for Renewal” for the general election due within the year. There will be guest speakers from SYRIZA, Podemos and
the European movement against water privatisation.

R2W includes the radical
left, Sinn Féin, other left politicians and the extensive
network of anti-water charges grassroots groups in
towns and communities across Ireland. R2W has mobilised four massive protests in since October
1, 2013, which have
rocked the establishment.

Ireland's Irish Left Review is housing a discussion on what way forward for the left, from which the contribution below first appeared.

March 17, 2015 -- Socialist Worker (USA), posted at Links International of Socialist Renewal -- The Urban League is going after the only leftist and the only woman
of colour on the Seattle City Council. Rather than challenging the
pro-corporate advocates of neoliberalism, whether Democrat or
Republican, who increasingly dominate US politics, this well-known
liberal organisation is expending its energy on defeating the left.

February 17, 2015 -- Against the Current, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Activists and candidates from around the United states will come together
on May 2-3, 2015, in Chicago to share their experiences and to launch a network
for future cooperation at the Future of Left/Independent Electoral
Action Conference.

Kshama
Sawant’s November 2014 election to the Seattle City Council captured
the attention of leftists across the country, but a number of other
exciting campaigns have also been path breaking, including the Jackson
Plan of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Richmond Progressive
Alliance’s David and Goliath fight against Chevron in the East Bay. Many
recent political developments have brought organisers building
alternatives to the two-party system together with those using direct
action and referenda to help win gains against fracking, for a $15
minimum wage, and other important initiatives.

February 2, 2015 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The victory of SYRIZA in the January 25, 2015, general election in Greece has led to widespread discussions across the Europe on the way forward for the left. In Spain, the rapid rise in the polls of the Podemos party has excited many. The following is one viewpoint on the meaning of the SYRIZA win for the Spansih left.

“This is the time for serious political discussion among progressive Irish political, community and trade union activists on ideas and strategies to ensure the future election of a Left coalition in the South ...

“Those on the progressive and republican Left need to make that change irreversible by altering the current balance of forces to create a new political realignment. That will only come about through popular support for a credible political alternative that can effectively challenge the conservative power blocs and their policies ...

January
25, 2015 – Links International Journal of
Socialist Renewal -- As Scots gathered together at Christmas and Hogmanay last
year conversations turned inevitably to politics. Most were agreed that the
year ahead would be a very interesting one. The impact of the independence referendum
vote on September 18, 2014, is still being felt throughout Scottish society, and that
impact is reverberating across the UK state as well.

November
11, 2014 – Links International Journal of
Socialist Renewal -- Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) national spokesperson
Colin Fox has written to Scottish National Party (SNP) leader elect Nicola
Sturgeon and Scottish Green Party leader Patrick Harvie inviting them to
support “Independence Alliance” candidates from the Yes campaign in the 2015 Westminster general election.

October 27, 2014 -- Green Left Weekly -- Left Unity is a new political group in Britain created out of a call
last year by filmmaker Ken Loach for a new party to the left of Labour,
which has moved rightwards in recent years and supports anti-worker
austerity measures. The call was supported by thousands of people and
Left Unity held its founding conference in November last year. Green Left Weekly's Denis Rogatyuk spoke with Left Unity's national secretary Kate Hudson, a veteran campaigner who is also general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

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Left Unity’s platform consists of socialism, feminism,
environmentalism and anti-racism, among other features. How was this
platform conceived? What was the decision-making process behind it?

The origins of the Left Unity project came in November 2012 out of
the common struggle across Europe against austerity. There was a
coordinated general strike across Europe on November 14 and we wanted to
participate in that in Britain.

September 20, 2014 -- Green Left Weekly -- After two years of campaigning, Scotland’s independence referendum has ended. It saw victory for the No side, the opponents of independence, with 55% compared to 45% who backed a Yes to independence.

The referendum saw an unprecedented level of political engagement and debate throughout Scotland. This was reflected in the huge and unprecedented turnout of 84.59%, reversing the trend of recent decades of dwindling poll turnouts. Some rural areas even recorded 100% turnout.

Pro-independence campaigners, especially around the Radical Independence Campaign, registered thousands to vote in Scotland’s poorest and most marginalised communities, where many had been off the voters roll since the days of the poll tax.

We spoke to people who had never voted and needed the process explained. These alienated communities were enfranchised by the referendum.

September 3, 2014 -- The Bullet, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission-- It is no longer enough to win over civil society,
occupy public spaces, take to the streets, carry out symbolic actions,
prevent evictions
or to win plebiscites. In Spain movements for "real democracy" are
setting a course to capture institutions – albeit with the aim
to recreate these institutions in a constitutive process in the
interests of "real democracy".

We are witnessing a dynamic reorganisation of the political sphere –
from the left. Even before the European parliamentary elections at
the end of May a shift was evident that would bring the Izquierda Unida (United Left, IU) party a tripling of its votes. It now has six
members in the European Parliament (MEPs) in Strasbourg.

August 5, 2014 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will be hosting an International Symposium of Left Parties/Movements in Benoni, Kopanong Hotel, from August 7-10, 2014, under the theme: “Building our own Movement for Socialism: Learning the Lessons First Hand”.

The symposium is in line with NUMSA’s groundbreaking resolutions taken at our special national congress held in December 2013. The NUMSA delegates who attended the special national congress mandated the national leadership structures to “explore” the establishment of a Movement for Socialism given that the working class needs a political organisation committed in its policies and actions to the establishment of a Socialist South Africa.

July 14, 2014 -- Transform! Network, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- We have broken the vicious circle of anti-communism in the post-Yugoslav context. As you imagine we are more than happy to present you
with such an amazing election result! As all the commentators
say, the United Left Coalition (ULC) was the biggest surprise. But the
path was difficult, the ULC was from early on marginalised by the mainstream.

[The ULC was formed for the May 25, 2014, European elections. It is composed of the Party for Sustainable Development (TRS), the Democratic
Labor Party (DSD) and the Initiative for Democratic Socialism (IDS).]